One Lucky Pickle: My Battle Against Perfectionism

You know those days where you actually have a plan?

And it's a good plan?

And everything should work out perfectly to make that plan happen?

And then it doesn't?

Yeah, well.

Monday was one of those days.

I do my weekly grocery shopping on Mondays.

Depending on how the morning goes, we either sneak it in before my daughter's preschool, or the other two hooligans and I go while she's at preschool.

I always do my meal planning before I go, otherwise our budget goes out the window.

And this week, we have a couple events that affected what meals I planned for on each day, like kindergarten orientation, and we always have a leftover night, but that has to be after certain meals that we always have leftovers from, right?

Sounds a little OCD?

Perhaps.

But it works for us.

My glorious plan went flying out the window when my 18-month-old didn't nap at his usual time.

I'm not totally crazy, I promise. I know kids naps go crazy sometimes, and typically nothing goes as planned with children.

EVER.

NEVERTHELESS--I was determined to have Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole for dinner, because I needed to use the bacon and green onions that we'd already had for a week, so I figured I'd just use the "cook on high for 2-3 hours" option.

I got it in the crock pot at 4:30.

BUT I figured that 6:30 wasn't too bad for dinner, right? And when I do this meal on low for "4-5 hours" it's ready in 4. So I figured 2 hours on high was a pretty safe bet.

Nope.

We still had runny egg coming out of the middle at 2 hours.

So I figured, what the heck. We have a Marie Callenders banana cream pie in the fridge that has ALSO been there for a week. It won't last forever. So let's have dinner backwards!

Naturally, the husband and kids thought it was a great idea.

So we had pie for dinner.